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| Jean Valentine |
The author of many collections of poetry, Jean Valentine has received such honors as the National Book Award, being selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the Wallace Stevens Award...
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| Red Cloth
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by Jean Valentine |
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Red cloth
I lie on the ground
otherwise nothing could hold
I put my hand on the ground
the membrane is gone
and nothing does hold
your place in the ground
is all of it
and it is breathing
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Copyright © 2009 by Jean Valentine. Originally published in The Nation. Used by permission of the author. |
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